BUSINESS PARTNER

BUSINESS PARTNER

 SAP Business Partner is used to centrally manage master data for

business partners, customers, and vendors. Business Partner Application
allows you to create, maintain, and manage business partners. You can
also use this to perform integration with other functions and data
exchange
 A business partner can be 1) organization 2) person
3)group Why BUSINESS PARTNER
 Master data is managed centrally
 Maximum data sharing and resue of data which leads to easier data
consolidation
 General Data available for all different Business Partner roles,
specific data is stored for each role.
 In classical transactions, one customer can only be associated with one
account group. But in Business Partner, multiple roles can be associated
with the same Business Partner A person can be vendor customer

CONFIGURATION

BP CONFIGURATION
1) DEFINE BP GROUP
2) DEFINE NUMBER RANGE
3) DEFINE NUMBER RANGE TO BP GROUP
VENDOR CONFIGURATION
1) DEFINE VENDOR ACCOUNT
2) DEFINE NUMBER RANGES
3) DEFINE NUMBER RANGES TO ACCOUNT GROUP
BP AND VENDOR MAPPING
1) DEFINE NUMBER ASSIGNMENT FOR DIRECTION BP TO
VENDOR
BP ROLE CONFIGURATION
1) DEFINE BP ROLE
2) GROUP BP ROLE
STEP 1 ) CREATE BUSINESS PARTNER

SPRO>>CROSS APPLICATION COMPANENT>> SAP

>>BUSINESS PARTNER>>BASIC SETTING>>NUMB

CREATED NEW BP (NEW ENTRY)

Now number range is not assigned to business partner so I will assign number
range
STEP 2) CREATE NUMBER RANGE AND ASSIGN NUMBER
RANGE
SPRO>>CROSS APPLICATION COMPANENT>> SAP
BUSINESS PARTNER
>>BUSINESS PARTNER>>BASIC
SETTING>>NUMBE R RANGES AND GROUPING
 CREATED NEW NUMBER RANGE

NUMBER RANGE IS ASSIGN TO BP

Now we have to create vendor in business partner so we have to configure the

vendor account group it control the number range for account group
STEP 3 ) DEFINE ACCOUNT GROUP
SPRO>>FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING>>ACCOU NT RECEIVABLE
 I CREATED NEW ACCOUNT GROUP

YOU CAN FIELD SELECT SAME AS ECC

STEP 4 ) DEFINE NUMBER RANGES AND ASSIGN TO

ACCOUNT GROUP

SPRO>>FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING>>ACCO UNT RECEIVA

NEW NUMBER RANGE CREATED

NUMBER RANGE ASSIGNED TO ACCOUNT G

STEP 5 ) BP AND VENDOR MAPPING

I defined business partner and vendor configuration in last step now I

have to configure

SPRO->SAP Reference IMG->Cross Application Components->Master Data S

Settings->Settings for vendor
integration->Field assignment for vendor integration->Assign Keys->Define nu

BP AND VENDOR ARE MAPPED TOGETHER I TICK SAME NOS SO THAT BP AND VENDOR
STEP 6 ) BUSINESS PARTNER ROLE CONFIGURATION

 In ecc when we want to add data we have to use t code fk01 separately in bp
we can chosse different data in single screen by selecting business partner
role in bp
 You can use the business partner role to carry out a business classification of
a business partner
 The attributes of the bp role depend on the particular transaction involved

BASIC : 000000
COPANY CODE DATA : FLVN01
PURCHASING DATA : FLVN00

 But it is time consuming to select every time business partner role so we

group together all business partner role into one for making vendor this
configuration is optional

SPRO>>CROSS APPLICATION COMPONENT>>SAP

 CREATED NEW BUSINESS ROLE HAVING BAS

I WANT FINANCIAL AND ORGANIZATION DATA IN ONE ROLE SO I ASSIGNED

Now we can check how to make business partner and vendor in SAP S/4 hana

TCODE : BP

CLICK TO START VENDOR

I USED COMBINED BP ROLE

BP
 TOU CAN MAINTAING BANK DETAIL

NOW I WANT TO ADD DATA FOR COMPANY CODE LEV

ALL BASIC SETTING CAN BE SAVED AT VENDOR BASIC DATA LEVEL

Now I want to maintain data at company code level

TO MAINTAIN AT COMPANY YOU HAVE TO

 NOW I WANT TO ADD PURCHASE ORGANIZATIO

YOU ALSO BLOCK VENDOR DIRECTLY

Now i want to maintain data purchase organization

 YOU CAN ADD PURCHASE ORGANIZATION

YOU CAN MAINTAIN PURCHASE ORGANIZATI

AFTER SAVING BP IS CREATED AND SAME VENDOR ALSO CRETED WITHIN BP